Avoiding the south side and the suburbs: The geography of mobile crowdsourcing markets

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 265-275

  Thebault Spieker, Jacob ^a   Terveen, Loren ^a   Hecht, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile crowdsourcing; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CROWDSOURCING; ECONOMICS; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC SIGNS;

METROPOLITAN AREA; MOBILE CROWDSOURCING; PHYSICAL WORLD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TRAVEL DISTANCE; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84968901847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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